[Question] Support PCRE regex for extension?

[Geobert]

I don't know if it's the correct place to ask question on VSCode so bear with me if I'm mistaken :)

Is there any plan to support PCRE regex in the future?

Or at least ECMA 2018 regex to have lookbehind ((?<=) and (?<!)) support

Thanks

[vscodebot]

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• Syntax highlight regex in find in file/s when regex is enabled (#42715)

[octref]

You should open issue for https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript for ECMA 2018 regex support.

[Geobert]

Done microsoft/TypeScript#24531

[mhegazy]

Based on the discussion in microsoft/TypeScript#24531, I believe the request here is to allow using ES2018 features in the regexp's support in VSCode features like find/replace. TypeScript is driving the language service for TS and JS but has nothing to do with executing/evaluating these regexp's in VSCode.

[Geobert]

@octref: Should this be reopened?

[octref]

We use ripgrep and seems no: BurntSushi/ripgrep#188